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hi, this is skip's personal blog! reblogs will be 18+ at times. may be chattier and sillier here! 💖 i'm a 3d artist and i like computers and parappa the rapper. ^o^

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hillbillyoracle

New Free Minizine: "Recovering from Reactivity"

[[ get a printable and read only version here (it's free) ]]

ferncloud

a scourge on the name of all good cats 🩸

staticstratosphere

my new 'puter!! :]

offspring

airplane i made 4 my friend

bobacupcake

idk if this counts but the skyboxes from the PS1 Spyro games

that like, triangular multicolor gradient thing going on

ok wow this turned out super interesting!!

i assumed that this was just prerendered somewhere and then brought into the game on a sphere or something like a lot of games. but i wanted to see just in case so i found a model rip and UH?

ACTUALLY IT TURNS OUT THEY JUST PAINTED THEM DIRECTLY ONTO A SPHERE USING THE VERTEX COLORS?

this absolutely saves a Ton of space back in the era of early 3d games not needing a giant skybox texture & saves a ton on rendering too it just caught me sooo off guard. but that explains why theyre triangular, and gradient!! when you paint vertex colors, two vertices next to eachother will blend into eachother from one's color to the next. essentially every point on this sphere's color bleeds into all the surrounding points. someone sure had fun with this

angelicguy

Nice argument, but as you can see I have drawn this image of us where I have a nice, juicy cheeseburger on my plate while you have naught but a single piece of celery.